A local builder and iron miner, James Townsend, was hired for the job.
Nevertheless the iron miners needed a good connection in order to make their product competitive.
Minnesota's economy was hard-hit by the Great Depression, resulting in lower prices for farmers, layoffs among iron miners, and labor unrest.
An independent band of iron miners was brought from Wellington Shropshire for the open-cast iron mine beside the towers then called Caban Gwyn.
Substantial groups of lumberjacks and iron miners were recruited directly by company agents in Sweden.
Janezich was born the son of an iron miner on Minnesota's Iron Range.
He has worked as an iron miner and is currently a firefighter.
The houses were built by iron miners working in the nearby Michigan Mine, which operated from October 1891 to 1916.
The iron miners had shut down the mines.
Thirty-three iron miners in West Germany were killed in a mine fire near Salzgitter.